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If you walk around San Francisco -- a city riven by tensions over the tech industry's wealth and the transformations it's producing -- wearing a conspicuous symbol of one of the region's biggest and richest tech companies on your face, sooner or later, someone is going to give you a hard time about it. Maybe several somebodies. Maybe a very hard time.

And what happens if you use that conspicuous symbol to film those somebodies as they give you a very hard time? This:

And this:

These video clips were filmed Friday night by Sarah Slocum, a Bay Area writer and social media marketing consultant. Slocum also happens to be part of the Google Glass Explorer program and had borrowed Google Glass from a friend and was wearing the augmented-reality device at a dive bar called Molotov's when, according to her account, several patrons of the bar made obscene gestures, directed aggressive comments her way and even threw things at her.

It was only once the heckling started, she says, that she started filming. Soon after that, one of her antagonists snatched the Glass off her face and left the bar. Slocum pursued him, and he returned them, but in the meantime other members of his group allegedly stole her phone and wallet. (That's one, truncated version of events; a longer one, with conflicting eyewitness accounts, can be read here.)

The longer clip above was taken down for several hours on Wednesday morning for reasons that are unclear, then restored. I'm not sure why there is only a brief snippet of audio. You can also see some of the raw P.O.V. footage in this local TV report.

Clearly, Slocum's not to blame for the actions of others -- but should she have expected them? After all, just last week, Google felt obliged to issue a set of guidelines for how Glass owners ought to behave to avoid attracting the wrong sort of attention.

The company specifically counseled users not to "expect to be ignored" while wearing Glass, and advised them to ask others' permission before recording video of them. Slocum clearly didn't do that. Perhaps the footage she took will help police recover her belongings -- and perhaps if she hadn't taken it, the whole thing wouldn't have escalated to the point it did.

I asked Google whether it recommends using Glass to document or deter crimes in progress in cases like Slocum's. I'll let you know what they say.

Update: In the original version of this post, I referred to Google as the biggest and richest tech company in the Bay Area. Apple, of course, is both bigger and richer, so I changed that to "one of the biggest and richest." I've also updated this post several times as Slocum's P.O.V. video has been taken down from YouTube and then restored.